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Degradation of polysaccharides by intestinal bacterial enzymes

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1978
Polysaccharides with structures resembling components of dietary fiber were fermented by a number of species of anaerobic bacteria from the human colon. Some strains also fermented glycoprotein mucins. The strains that fermented the widest range of polysaccharide substrates were in the two genera Bacteroides and Bifidobacterium.
A A Salyers, T. D. Wilkins, J K Palmer
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Bacterial Polysaccharide Vaccines

2011
Capsulated bacteria, Gram-positive or Gram-negative, cause a variety of infections in man. Prominent among them are streptococci of Lancefield’s groups A, B, and C, staphylococci, meningococci, Haemophilus influenzae type b, klebsiellas, Escherichia coli, and Salmonella typhi, to name but some.
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Bacterial polysaccharide synthesis and gene nomenclature

Trends in Microbiology, 1996
Gene nomenclature for bacterial surface polysaccharides is complicated by the large number of structures and genes. We propose a scheme applicable to all species that distinguishes different classes of genes, provides a single name for all genes of a given function and greatly facilitates comparative studies.
Reeves, P R, Hobbs, M, Valvano, M A, Skurnik, M, Whitfield, C, Coplin, D, Kido, N, Klena, J, Maskell, D, Raetz, C R, Rick, P D   +10 more
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Bacterial Capsular Polysaccharide and Sugar Transferases

2004
Capsular polysaccharides (CPs) of several pathogenic bacteria are thought to be good materials for the development of new therapeutic reagents. These polysaccharides can be used as vaccines against infection of pathogenic bacteria and are also useful as inhibitors for disease caused by aberrant and abnormal cell-cell interaction, such as cancer ...
Shinji Iijima, Katsuhide Miyake
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STRUCTURAL STUDIES OF SOME BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDES

Pure and Applied Chemistry, 1977
Abstract
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Acetan — A New Bacterial Polysaccharide

1994
The bacterial exopolysaccharide xanthan gum forms thixotropic aqueous dispersions. Xanthan will form thermoreversible gels when mixed with certain plant galactomannans or plant glucomannans. Such behavior is fairly well understood in terms of the chemical and stereochemical structure of xanthan. It would be useful to employ such information in order to
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Polysaccharide Interactions in Bacterial Biofilms

1992
Biofilms may be considered as a highly structured functional consortia of cells, attached to substrata within extracellular polysaccharide (EPS) containing matrices (Costerton et al, 1987). Their physiology, metabolism and organisation is greatly dependent upon the nature of those substrata and also upon the prevailing physicochemical environment.
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Bacterial Polysaccharide Structure and Biosynthesis [PDF]

, 2013
Miguel A. Valvano, Miguel A. Valvano, Yuriy A. Knirel   +2 more
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Bacterial Surface Polysaccharides: Structure and Function

1988
Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the chemical and physical information possessed on bacterial surface polysaccharides and determines the extent to which it matches and amplifies the cytological observations of these polymeric structures. The specific groups of extracellular polysaccharides are discussed.
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ACTIVITIES OF CERTAIN BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDES*,† [PDF]

Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1952
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